new rhyme scheme

03/19/2010

they hold on tightest before they let go
you speak to me as if you know
why i stand here at all hours
waiting for you to show.
i want to feel like i still make you feel
i want to know this is still real
it's not cheap chocolate and cheaper flowers
when do you stop hurting to heal?
i'm not enough anymore to entertain
or keep your attention anything but strained
and if i'm going to try this hard
i'd prefer not to have to do it in pain.
please look at me like you used to do
i've never stopped being so in love with you
you're leaving me burnt, broken and charred
come back, come back, and please be true.

accessory

03/16/2010

I bought you that accessory
So you would always think of me
You can replace accessories
But don't act like you can replace me
If you really believe you can
Then I don't recognize this man
The clothes and shoes
They won't follow through
They won't make use
For as long as I do
And you to me
Is no accessory
It layers above and within
You're more like my skin
Skin cuts and peels
But it always heals
So don't think of me
As an accessory
You are so much more to me
So look at your skin, think & see
The warmth that radiates there
When you're lying pure and bare
You'd be so cold without it, you see
That warmth, that skin, that feeling, is me.
I'm not just an accessory
I'm essential, please see,
You are essential to me.

fishing.

03/15/2010

you give me hope
you keep me going
take me to the water
i'm throwing
my fishing line
and everytime
i reel enough to keep us full.
i'll feed us forever
so stay by my side
the boat may rock
but the water will stop
you'll calm it like
you can calm all in me.
so hold me tight and
crush the demons
stirring and waiting to arise
you won't let a single thing crush me.
tie me up in fishing line
throw me in and i'll be fine
i'll be your bait
i'll take what you throw to me
you reeled me in so long ago
and now i'm hooked.
bad puns aside i promise
you will lay beside i promise
and i will give you space at night
but if you whimper in your sleep,
i will pull you close to me.
throw the line in deeper dear
i can handle the heaviest pull
of anything beneath the surface
because nothing,
and i mean nothing, my love,
can pull me away.